**TELEPHONOGRAM**

Kharkov.
To Petrovskii and Frunze.
30 III 1921 [14 h. 25 m.]

Pyatakov urgently requests me to assist in securing Sergei Syrtsov from Odessa as secretary in the Donbas. Pyatakov accuses the Central Control Commission of the Communist Party of Ukraine of unwillingness to appoint Syrtsov solely out of factional fears, allegedly because Syrtsov is a Trotskyist. Pyatakov declares that neither he nor Syrtsov promise to conduct factional politics. I do not know Syrtsov; I request that you gather all available information and respond.

Lenin.

**NOTES**

To Stuchka
(Secret).
7/VI [1921]

Comrade Stuchka!

I am fulfilling your request; today I have written to Chicherin to press harder on the Latvian government and to send a telegram to Ganetskii, requesting that he without fail press the matter and save the workers.

Best greetings and congratulations on the successes of the communist movement in Latvia!

Your Lenin.

13 VII [1921]

Comrade Fotieva

1) find the author urgently, receive him, calm him, tell him that I am ill, but I will move his matter forward

2) have his letter retyped on the typewriter in several copies:
   1 to Molotov
   1 to Solts, Central Control Commission

3) when sending the letter to Molotov, add from me: I propose sending a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of the Control Commission + 10 Sverdlovsk comrades (take the author with them) to shoot on the spot those convicted of pillage.

Lenin.

¹ Lenin's letter is a reply to Stuchka's letter of 4 June 1921, in which he requested Lenin's assistance in arranging an exchange of two workers handed over to a military court in Riga for arrested Latvians in the USSR. In the concluding part of his letter, Stuchka reported on the successes of the communist movement in Latvia.